Barcelona City Council election, 1999

Barcelona City Council election, 1999

13 June 1999

All 41 seats in the Barcelona City Council 21 seats needed for a majority Registered 1,352,781 1.1% Turnout 697,091 (51.5%) 14.7 pp   First party Second party Third party   Leader Joan Clos Joaquim Molins Santiago Fisas Party PSC CiU PPC Leader since 26 September 1997 30 March 1998 22 January 1999 Last election 16 seats, 38.4% 13 seats, 30.6% 7 seats, 16.6% Seats won 20 10 6 Seat change 4 3 1 Popular vote 313,623 150,518 103,177 Percentage 45.2% 21.7% 14.9% Swing 6.8 pp 8.9 pp 1.7 pp   Fourth party Fifth party   Leader Jordi Portabella Imma Mayol Party ERC ICV Leader since 1999 1998 Last election 2 seats, 5.1% 3 seats, 7.6% Seats won 3 2 Seat change 1 1 Popular vote 45,278 43,999 Percentage 6.5% 6.3% Swing 1.4 pp 1.3 pp

Mayor before election Joan Clos PSC Elected Mayor Joan Clos PSC

The 1999 Barcelona City Council election was held on Sunday, 13 June 1999, to elect the 6th Barcelona City Council, the unicameral local legislature of the municipality of Barcelona. At stake were all 41 seats in the City Council, determining the Mayor of Barcelona.

Electoral system

The number of seats in the Barcelona City Council was determined by the population count. According to the municipal electoral law, the population-seat relationship on each municipality was to be established on the following scale:

Additionally, for populations greater than 100,000, 1 seat was to be added per each 100,000 inhabitants or fraction, according to the most updated census data, and adding 1 more seat if the resulting seat count gives an even number. As the updated population census for the 1999 election was 1,505,581, the Barcelona City Council size was set to 41 seats.

All City Council members were elected in a single multi-member district, consisting of the Barcelona municipality, using the D'Hondt method and a closed-list proportional representation system. Voting was on the basis of universal suffrage in a secret ballot. Only lists polling above 5% of valid votes in all of the municipality (which include blank ballots—for none of the above) were entitled to enter the seat distribution.

The Spanish municipal electoral law established a clause stating that, if no candidate was to gather an absolute majority of votes to be elected as mayor of a municipality, the candidate of the most-voted party would be automatically elected to the post.^[1]

Results

← Summary of the 13 June 1999 Barcelona City Council election results →

Party		Vote			Seats
		Votes	%	±pp	Won	+/−
	Socialists' Party of Catalonia-Catalonia Municipal Progress (PSC-PMC)	313,623	45.19	6.80	20	4
	Convergence and Union (CiU)	150,518	21.69	8.87	10	3
	People's Party of Catalonia (PPC)	103,177	14.87	1.75	6	1
	Republican Left of Catalonia-Greens-Municipal Agreement (ERC-EV-AM)	45,278	6.52	1.40	3	1
	Initiative for Catalonia-Greens-Municipal Progress Agreement (IC-V-EPM)	43,999	6.34	1.27	2	1
	United and Alternative Left (EUiA)	8,941	1.29	New	0	±0
	Party for Independence (PI)	6,671	0.96	New	0	±0
	The Greens-Green Group (LV-GV)	4,675	0.67	New	0	±0
	Ecologist Party of Catalonia (PEC)	1,079	0.16	New	0	±0
	Democratic and Social Centre (CDS)	798	0.11	0.03	0	±0

Parties with less than 0.1% of the vote		2,167	0.31	–	0	±0
	The Falange (FE)	644	0.09	New	0	±0
	Catalan State (EC)	561	0.08	New	0	±0
	Humanist Party (PH)	517	0.07	0.04	0	±0
	Independent Spanish Falange (FEI)	235	0.03	New	0	±0
	European National State (N)	210	0.03	0.01	0	±0

	Blank ballots	13,130	1.89	0.98
Total		694,056	100.00		41	±0
Valid votes		694,056	99.56	0.22
Invalid votes		3,035	0.44	0.22
Votes cast / turnout		697,091	51.53	14.69
Abstentions		655,690	48.47	14.69
Registered voters		1,352,781
Source: Ministry of the Interior

References

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